tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65637192919208967892024-03-12T18:51:53.225-07:00Art Since 1945, 2-4:30 p.m.John Alfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770758730272632745noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-89742407188025565262013-03-11T20:57:00.003-07:002013-03-11T20:57:36.711-07:00Moebius<br />
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Jean "Moebius" Giraud is a prolific illustrator created and influenced countless works within our fantasy and sci-fi culture today. He worked on preliminary designs for such films as Alien, Tron, The Abyss, Masters of the Universe, The Fifth Element, and Willow. He has been a direct influence for major works such as Blade Runner.<br />
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Concept art for The Diva in Fifth Element (1997)<br />
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The style of his illustration is known as well for his rich imagination as the superb color use and attention to environmental detail.<br />
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Moebius is renown for his comic strip "Fort Navajo" and spinoff "Blueberry", and also for teaming with Stan Lee to make the “Silver Surfer: Parable,” published in 1988.<br />
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Moebius unfortunately passed away last year while fighting an illness; he was 73 years old.Ryan Duggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06748483101251310638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-13167916306504216402013-03-11T18:06:00.002-07:002013-03-11T18:06:14.832-07:00It's Arbus TIME!<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Famous black and white photographer, she used 35 mm black and white film to capture her subjects which consisted of bizarre portraits. She loved to take photographs of "outsiders" aka strange stereotyped people or emotions and events. She created silver gelatin prints of her 35 mm film. She had some harsh critics claiming she was just winging it, but I think that's part of the charm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find her pictures stunning. She captures this unusual moment that makes you observe every detail. It's shame she committed suicide in 1971. I think she would have continued to create wonderful photographs. Or maybe she wouldn't have been able to handle this modern world? Either way, I'm glad she used film because it's a permanent way of remembering her. </span></div>
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N'Trinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10915582155559929008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-61735292366464355712013-03-11T17:07:00.003-07:002013-03-11T17:07:48.671-07:00Lesseus Woods Architect Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) was an architect that dedicated his life to pushing the potential of architecture. Even though few buildings wear his name he had an enormous influence on the field of architecture. Much of his work were drawings of free thought that included recognizable areas destroyed by natural disaster or war and renderings of future cities. Many pieces of his work is to be shown at SFMOMA this year. <br />
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Justin Sightlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12523037789255666838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-15739074962677704022013-03-11T15:43:00.000-07:002013-03-13T15:43:41.618-07:00MICHAEL HUSSAR-CREEPTASTIC!<br />
MICHAEL HUSSAR- I had a book of his work about 3 years ago and sadly let someone borrow it, never to be seen again. I love his work for the obvious dramatic antithesis of fashion and beauty. All dressed up and nowhere to go. It's stands as a reminder that nothing is ever as it seems. There is always some ugly underneath that is not shared. Also, they seem to have a nastalgic feeling of times past with sexual and religious references like the old Masters. While working in a very classical style he comes off very contemporary with his added grotesque, emotional and dramatic and truly dark and sometimes suicidal themes.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is not much about the Matt Wisniewski, besides the fact that he was born in Philadelphia in 1990, and therefore is as young as many of the students here at Savannah College of Art and Design, and currently lives in New York. In an interview with “Design Tonic” online, he discusses about his process and says that he enjoys layering on top of his image and lightening and multiplying in Photoshop. He then begins to clean things up and match and contrast various parts. Currently still a student at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology, he prefers to work with Photoshop rather than working with a paintbrush, although he has the technique down- as he has told other interviewers. As he has said before, “Photoshop is a lot more forgiving than traditional media. I can easily fix mistakes or experiment with an idea and completely erase those changes if I feel they don’t fit,” he said in an interview with LightBox. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I chose to use his pieces of work for the last entry because they have always inspired my projects, especially since they have some sort of metaphorical meaning behind them, in one way or another. They are beautiful, simple, natural, yet modern.</span></div>
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Alexandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02202956699425302291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-60079519955572421722013-03-10T19:49:00.000-07:002013-03-10T19:49:03.329-07:00Maurizio Cattelan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 18px;">A myth is a foundational narrative that may be based in truth or fiction but either way it tells a story of who we are. Thus self-consciousness is constructed by a shared narrative and helps us to give shape and even name our identity. If we think of identity in the usual terms of religion or nationalism, some examples of these mythological narratives include the King James Bible or the story of George Washington cutting down a cherry tree. But in the art world, there are strains of mythology that are built on identity formations like artist, curator, or critic.</span><br />
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Dave McKean is an English illustrator with style notable for its mass inclusion of drawing, painting photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpture. Thus, his visual style can hardly be identified according to the attributes of any one medium. Often times, his work forfeits any grounded realism and instead abstractly depicts a mood or atmosphere by seaming together various imagery almost like a crooked quilt.<br />
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Cover for Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman"<br />
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His work has been used for numerous book covers, and was notably seen in comic books such as Grant Morrison's <i>Arkham Asylum.</i><br />
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McKean's portrayal of Joker in "Arkham Asylum"<br />
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In 2005, he directed his first feature length film, <i>MirrorMask</i>, produced by Jim Henson Studios, with screenplay written by Neil Gaiman.<br />
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Corey Barksdale is a local Atlanta artist who uses great textures and colorful elements. He mainly focuses on jazz and dance and creates paintings from normal canvases to huge murals. </div>
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Joanna’s paintings transport us to worlds of fantasy and elegance in images that explore complex, passionate relationships. Inspired by artists such as Vermeer, Degas and Sargent, Joanna expresses her passion for life, her family, her homeland and her adopted home. Her world is feminine and seductive.</div>
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Where her early paintings were filled with beautiful and chic people, theatrical scenery and voyeurism, her current work tells a simpler story. Still influenced by cinema, fashion and music, Zjawinska strives to create beauty in face and form, in landscape or abstract setting, and this theme remains integral to her work. She relies on strong composition and a deeper palette to create visions of mysterious women who seek and reveal passion.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Giuseppe Licari’s <i>Humus 2012</i> presents these chandelier-like objects in a modern room filled with society in which these people can observe the root of the problem, literally. The installation is titled ‘humus’ because it “refers to the soil layer that is essential for the growth of trees and plants” which Licari said when asked. Typically when invited to view a presentation of artworks, the pieces are placed against the walls or even on the floors, however, in this case- the viewers had to flow about, trying to view the roots from above. It was as if they were trying to view this underground secret lair. This has much to do with the relationship between humankind and nature, and viewing the growth between the two and our relationship with nature itself. </span><br />
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<br />Alexandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02202956699425302291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-47370854597837821102013-03-03T13:37:00.002-08:002013-03-03T13:37:16.881-08:00-Bruno Zhu-<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My search on random artists has brought the photographer <b>Bruno Zhu</b> to the blogging world of class ARTH 340.</span><br />
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<br />N'Trinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10915582155559929008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-52086683053677451112013-02-25T21:27:00.003-08:002013-02-25T21:27:37.909-08:00Andy Goldsworthy<div style="text-align: center;">
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Andy Goldsworthy is an <span class="style2">extraordinary</span>, innovative British artist whose collaborations with nature produce uniquely personal and intense artworks. Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials—snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers petals, twigs—he creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleeting, a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy, records his work in suburb color photographs. His pieces are really something beautiful to look at and experience.</div>
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Choros, a short film by Michael Langan and Terah Maher, is
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Rashid Johnson’s <i>I Talk White</i>, 2003 made quite the “talk”. His unique black and white photography work touched on a lot of race and racism and the importance of where the colors in the photograph sometimes do not literally mix in real, true life. The large scale photograph was sold at an auction on October 25th, 2008. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The photograph itself looks as though someone took paste and went ahead and wrote “I TALK WHITE” on top of the photograph as if they were a two year old, and that is how the subject matter relates. It is a subject matter that we should not even have to deal with at this age. Minority should not even exist, but it does because we bring it up, and because we make a big deal of it. That is the only reason behind it all.</span><br />
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<br />Alexandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02202956699425302291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-78723736973877847372013-02-25T18:02:00.001-08:002013-02-25T18:02:05.347-08:00On a current spanish artist fix!My research paper is on Doris Salcedo (a columbian artist). So I thought why not research another spanish artist who is alive, still kickin' AND still making art? So I present:<br />
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A self taought artist, he is from Spain and was inspired by the Prado museum (PICASSO! Can you tell from his work?) I immediately saw influences of Matisse and Picasso in his artworks. Most of his subjects are women (oh that romantic spanish man lol) and he actually claims his chice of subject is due to his spanish nature! His artist statement is <em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: justify;">"The painting does not need so much circus not so many intellectual pretension. She must sprout of the clean soul of the man.”</em><br />
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It is a modern expressionism in my opinion and you can see that this is a current (as in the last 10 years) art piece. His color palette speaks to me since I love color and try to use it as often as possible. </div>
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If you go on her website you will experience videos that will show her pushing the boundaries of the human spirit. What is beauty? In the video Un/Becoming Beautiful, Brazen shows the everyday concerns and insecurities that women have. As she puts on more make-up to become the commercialized idea of beautiful she still says to herself that she is not beautiful. Then as she begins to aggressively take off the mask she reveals the true beauty that is her.<br />
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In 2011 Brazen, with no words spoken, she skillfully portrays the communication or the lack of between two people in Open House. I the video you watch the pain that happens when one's affections are misunderstood and then the blissful happiness when then his affections are reciprocated. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A prominent<span style="font-size: x-small;"> artist</span> of the pop movement was Robert Indiana. He called
himself a sign painter, he incorporated symbols, signs and letters
throughout his art. Indiana created poems, sculptures, paintings, silk
screens and posters. His most famous sculpture is called <em>Love</em>
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<br />Justin Sightlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12523037789255666838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-64251172013132359142013-02-21T21:12:00.001-08:002013-02-21T21:13:34.826-08:00Neil Dawson- Horizon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Neil Dawson's sculpture here is displayed at Gibbs Farm along with many other site specific installations in New Zealand. He studied at Canterbury University School of Fine Arts, Melbourne. Dawson produces large sculptures made from welded and painted steel. This one specifically is called <i>Horizons</i> and was produced in 1994. The beauty of this sculpture is that from afar it looks like a simple painting done in the sky and almost looks unrealistic because of it's simple yet unique beauty. <i>Horizons </i>was one of the first works commissioned for the Gibb's Farm. Also it sits on one of the highest points of the farm making it possible to see from the road. It has a tromp l'oeil effect that "fools the eye" from a distance. It is ironic that something so mechanical and so sturdy can look so gentle, flowing in the wind.<br />
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Kyle Pindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511596234523885758noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563719291920896789.post-84573382845336075332013-02-19T01:58:00.001-08:002013-02-19T01:58:30.615-08:00RIP Richard ArtschwagerI'm kind of seeing a morbid theme to my posts.....<br />
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He died on February 9th to be exact. He was a 60's artist who dabbled in paint and sculpture (I guess a bit of pop art and conceptual?). </div>
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I would best describe these as weird versions of art furniture. He played with perspective and shape playing with his viewers perceptions. Shame he died, his stuff looks interesting. I wonder what prompted him to play with these odd shapes and why furniture like pieces? Is he challenging our thought and physical space of what we see as a chair?</div>
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Judy Chicago was born in Chicago on July 20, 1939. She considers herself an "artist, author, feminist, and educator" and has had her books published in foreign editions because of the fact that she exhibits her work all over the world such as Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.<br />
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Her Power Play series was created from 1982-87 and took on the role of a criticizing feminine standpoint on masculinity. The series consisted of drawings, paintings, weavings, cast paper and bronze relief. They are confrontational pieces that force the viewer to realize the issues of power and powerlessness that she is trying to get across between the male and female genders. Some of the pieces involve objects like guns or sexual dominance or abuse, but mainly they are faces of men portraying different emotions. The emotions are mostly anger, weeping, or a struggle for power.<br />
She does a lot of disfigured male faces, and the way Chicago portrays them is very unpleasant, obviously stating in her work that she is a feminist artist.<br />
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